Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make it. That research has gone into it and we say "This is a history of the civil war, this is a biography of Lincoln" whatever. But you don't make any such supposition when you say "This is a historical novel."

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.